Well it certainly did not take long for the Bush team to make a misstep...
One of Bush's first campaign re-election commercials is already drawing criticism. The ad features the text "Then tragedy stuck..." along with some images from 9/11. The commercial is already under fire from families of the victims of 9/11 along with many others who are just offended by the very idea that the events/images of that day are being politicized at all.
Quick to get on the defense, the Bush team trotted out advisor Karen Hughes this morning. I saw her appearances on both CBS' The Early Show and ABC's Good Morning America. Hughes pretty much spouted the same lines (pretty much verbatim) on both shows.
But what got me is when she called the 9/11 images a "tasteful reminder of what the country has been through the last three years." The best that they can come up with is that it is "a tasteful reminder"?!? Talk about adding more fuel to fire!
To add to my nausea she added: "I can understand why some Democrats might not want the American people to remember the great leadership and strength the president and first lady Laura Bush brought to our country in the aftermath of that." Ick, Ick, Ick!
It's going to be a looooong 8 months folks...especially for us folks in the so-called "battleground" states!
(BTW, I am not getting all "newsy" on you...I really TiVo'd both shows to see the Survivor Roundtable discussion on CBS and Diane Sawyer interview The Sopranos' Edie Falco).
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